• Anne Michaels The winter vault

  "Overseen by Avery, a young engineer who at the same time is carefully, and joyfully, constructing a shared life with his new wife, Jean.But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Villages will be deluged. Graves will be moved. Thousands will be exiled from their ancient homes and from the river that has been their lifeblood, and no feat of engineering can prevent this.As the temple is taken apart and rebuilt, Avery and Jean suffer a terrible loss of their own. Their separate...

  Engels | 352 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Jaspreet Singh Chef

  Een chef-kok reist voor de laatste keer per trein van Delhi naar Kashmir en blikt terug op zijn leven dat is bepaald door de verdeling van Kasjmir tussen India en Pakistan.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Politieke roman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Will Self Umbrella

  Een radicale psychiater in Londen ontdekt rond 1970 dat sommige van zijn langdurige patiënten niet geestesziek zijn, maar lijden aan een in de jaren twintig van de 20e eeuw rondwarende slaapziekte.

  Fictie

  Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 1,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Michael Sims Dracula's guest

  "Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and...

  Engels | 480 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Rachel Ferguson The Brontës went to Woolworths

  "As growing up in pre-war London looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable appetite for the fantastic. Eldest sister Deirdre is a journalist, Katrine a fledgling actress and young Sheil is still with her governess; together they live a life unchecked by their mother in their bohemian town house. Irrepressibly imaginative, the sisters cannot resist making up stories as they have done since childhood; from their talking nursery toys, Ironface...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (2,1 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Justin Cartwright The promise of happiness

  "Theft and the reasons for it plague all the protagonists. For Charles, the father, it is a challenge to his sense of rightness and proof of the disintegration of society. For his wife Daphne, it is a source of resentment and puzzlement. Brother Charlie and sister Sophie are less worried by the morality of the theft than by the dissolution of the certainties of family. For Juliet herself is bitter and wounded at being the scapegoat for a victimless crime. And she feels guilty for the pain she has...

  Engels | 320 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Juliet Nicolson Abdication

  "England, 1936. After the recent death of George V, the nation has a new king, Edward VIII. But for all the confident pomp and ceremony of the accession, it is a turbulent time. Terrible poverty and unemployment affect many, but trouble few among the ruling elite; for others, Oswald Mosley's New Party, which offers a version of the fascism on the rise in Germany, seems to offer the vision of the future. Nineteen-year-old May Thomas has just disembarked at Liverpool Docks after making the long journey...

  Engels | 368 pagina's (0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Daniyal Mueenuddin In other rooms, other wonders

  "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of their station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. These richly textured stories reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday...

  Engels | 256 pagina's (0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Patrick McGrath Constance

  Als een gescheiden poëzieprofessor van Engelse afkomst in New York trouwt met een jonge vrouw die hem fescineert, vermoedt hij niet welke moeilijkheden hij zich op de hals haalt.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller

  Engels | 224 pagina's (ePub, 3,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Thomas Mogford Shadow of the rock

  Een advocaat uit Gibraltar helpt een joodse vriend, die in Marokko wordt beschuldigd van de moord op een jong meisje.

  Fictie | Detectiveroman

  Engels | 272 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Michael Ondaatje The English patient

  Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzorgt een Canadese verpleegster een waarschijnlijk Engelse piloot, die in de woestijn is neergeschoten en niet meer weet wie hij is.

  Fictie

  Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 2,5 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Michèle Roberts Ignorance

  Vlak voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog zitten twee Franse meisjes samen op school; mede door de oorlogsomstandigheden worden ze gedwongen keuzes te maken met verstrekkende gevolgen.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Psychologische roman

  Engels | 240 pagina's (ePub, 1,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Dirk Wittenborn Pharmakon

  Wanneer een Amerikaanse professor een pil ontwikkeld heeft waarvan men gelukkig wordt, is het resultaat voor zijn eigen gezin dramatisch.

  Fictie | Psychologische roman | Thriller

  Engels | 416 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Lucy Wood Diving belles

  "Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and, from time to time, a certain kind of magic can float to the surface... Straying husbands lured into the sea can be fetched back, for a fee. Magpies whisper to lonely drivers late at night. Trees can make wishes come true - provided you know how to wish properly first. Houses creak, fill with water and keep a fretful watch on their inhabitants, straightening shower curtains...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• William Boyd Restless

  Een Russische ex-spionne, die in 1939 werd gerekruteerd door de Britse geheime dienst, schrijft in 1976 haar verhaal om zich te wreken op haar verrader.

  Fictie | Spionageroman

  Engels | 336 pagina's (ePub, 0,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Tishani Doshi The pleasure seekers

  Als een 19-jarige Indiase jongeman in Engeland werkervaring komt opdoen, wordt hij verliefd op een Welsh meisje en weigert de verloofde die zijn ouders voor hem hebben gekozen.

  Fictie | Familieroman

  Engels | 320 pagina's (ePub, 0,8 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Joyce Dennys Henrietta sees it through

  "The war is now in its third year and although nothing can dent the unwavering patriotism of Henrietta and her friends, everyone in the Devonshire village has their anxious moments. Henrietta takes up weeding and plays the triangle in the local orchestra to take her mind off things; the indomitable Lady B, now in her late seventies, partakes in endless fund-raising events to distract herself from thoughts of life without elastic; and Faith, the village flirt, finds herself amongst the charming company...

  Engels | 208 pagina's (2,7 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Liz Jensen The ninth life of Louis Drax

  "Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical...

  Engels | 240 pagina's (1,2 MB) | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [London] | 2014

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• Tomas Eloy Martinez Purgatory

  "Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, `Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday.' Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, had vanished during one of their trips to map an uncharted country road. Later testimonies had confirmed that he had been one of the thousands of victims...

  Engels | 288 pagina's (0,6 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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• Magnus Mills The restraint of beasts

  Een kersverse voorman van een Schots bedrijf wordt met een ploegje werkschuwe arbeiders voor een grote opdracht naar Engeland gestuurd, waar hij merkt hoe hij langzaam aan wordt geïndoctrineerd en zo meewerkt aan hun sabotage.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub, 0,4 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014

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